ginseng is not a drug, grow some tobacco its legal, but try and give or sell any of it and ur gonna probably go to jail for manufacturing and distribution of a controlled substance. my vist to Denver showed me legal seems to kill the black market in areas were it is legal. tho u will have tohose that cater to non legal places/perhaps you've heard of peak oil, well peak weed is coming too.. that is the point in the future when so many folks are getting into commercial growing that they end up flooding the market and bringing the price down to near nil.. think of all the other agricultural fads gone wrong like emus, llamas, ginseng, etc etc etc.. where a bunch of folks get an idea in their head at the same time and then there's a mad rush and soon a stampede.. try giving a llama away nowadays lol.. in the end we will win..
You can grow all the free ginseng you want. I betcha a farmer would give you some if you wanted to try some...free. Same way I give away apples and plums from my trees. The monetary value comes through commercialization. If I choose to grow my full 49 plant allotment, I would have more than enough to share, either sell to help with costs or give away to those in need. The recreational retail market would be pricey and taxed...but your garden isn't. If the governments goal is to collect taxes, they would be defeating their purpose by having higher prices than the BM. The BM has done fine for a long time...legal will have to be competitive.
I guess there are differences depending on where you live, but in most places I've lived in Canada, the bm price has stayed the same or dropped over the last 35 years. I paid $25 for an eighth of weed in 1979...the same price it is now. My reference to ginseng was meant to compare natural health products, which cannabis should be, not classified as a drug. I can grow 15 kg of tobacco and give it all away...but not weed, yet tobacco kills thousands every year, weed...not so much. I can grow acres of grapes and make wine, I can sell it with a simple $150 business license. Alcohol is the biggest killer among all drugs. The Denver bm problem you mention supplying other jurisdictions is a made in the USA issue. Legal weed in Canada is going to come as a nationwide law, every Canadian will have the same opportunity to grow or buy, who will use the bm? Just my take on it....this is comical to me, the only thing i have seen the price drop on in my life time on anything not outdated is when the housing market crashed. Cannabis is a commodity, prices never drop. look at oil, they say it is almost bottomed out but it is still $2 more then i remember starting to drive........ hell of a bottom.
ginseng is not a drug, grow some tobacco its legal, but try and give or sell any of it and ur gonna probably go to jail for manufacturing and distribution of a controlled substance. my vist to Denver showed me legal seems to kill the black market in areas were it is legal. tho u will have tohose that cater to non legal places/
The only way the bm will survive legalization is if they only let lp's sell weed. Shit quality will mean the bm continues and flourishes. If we get a Colorado/Washington type legalization it could kill the bm. Go check on leafley or weedmaps what the price get gram or oz of aaaa goes for in those states. It's coming down but the bm here is still cheaper.I guess there are differences depending on where you live, but in most places I've lived in Canada, the bm price has stayed the same or dropped over the last 35 years. I paid $25 for an eighth of weed in 1979...the same price it is now. My reference to ginseng was meant to compare natural health products, which cannabis should be, not classified as a drug. I can grow 15 kg of tobacco and give it all away...but not weed, yet tobacco kills thousands every year, weed...not so much. I can grow acres of grapes and make wine, I can sell it with a simple $150 business license. Alcohol is the biggest killer among all drugs. The Denver bm problem you mention supplying other jurisdictions is a made in the USA issue. Legal weed in Canada is going to come as a nationwide law, every Canadian will have the same opportunity to grow or buy, who will use the bm? Just my take on it....
In March I was in la. Smoked the best of the best from the best dispensary(daddy's pipes and collective if you care to know) everything they sell is $20 a gram and oz' range from $400-320. Top notch weed that's for sure but those prices are insane. I don't mind paying crazy prices like that on vacation but if I lived there I couldn't afford to go there 99% of the time.we went to WA state & bought at $23/g..lots of room for the BM
when i was a kid, onces/1/4's are around the same price but the amount for LB's has changed a few times....even in the last 2 years...it even went down to $900/LB